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Fwd: Call for Paper Proposals for the MESA 2011 Conference for the Proposed Panel on “Islam and International Relations: Mutual Perceptions ”

Deadline:

February 13, 2011

Event Date:

December 01, 2011 - December 04, 2011

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Call for paper proposals for the proposed panel on “Islam and InternationalRelations: Mutual Perceptions” for the 2011 MESA Conference (1-4 December2011, Washington DC).

Dear Colleagues,

Greetings!

I would like to invite you to contribute a research/study paper for the panel on“Islam and International Relations: Mutual Perceptions” for the coming MESAannual conference. The deadline for submission of panel proposals is on 15February 2011. Please read the abstract of the panel below.

For a very long time, the Muslim world was regarded as an outsider from thecultural and normative pretext and state relations of the West. Even during thereign of the Ottoman Empire, scholars of International Relations (IR) excludedher as a subordinated non-ally or stealth ally of major European powers. It isnow apparent that there is an imperative motivation why Islamic discoursesgradually dominate contemporary international relations and events, e.g.Palestinian question, Iranian nuclear issue, Arab oil, gas and Turkish waterresources, rise of extremist movements, terrorism, post-war Afghanistan andIraq, tensions in the Maghreb countries, Sudanese conflict, Muslim rebels inSoutheast Asia, and how all of these events affect the West in a theory-praxisspectrum.

If IR scholars and members of the English School of International Relationswere able to associate and converge their thoughts on conceptualizingInternational Relations with Christianity, this is of course majority of themare Christians. Then, it is a precedent and an indication that along the strandof the Abrahamic Faiths Islam is putatively feasible and probable to understandand interpret IR.

The objectives of the panel are to show juxtaposed positions of mutualperceptions between Islam and IR based on conceived notions of sensitiveconceptions like sovereignty, state, human rights, gender, and etcetera, toeliminate deplorable and pejorative (mis)conceptions of IR scholars towardsIslam and vice versa, and add or put Islam in the epitome of global discourse ofinternational relations as a major causal factor that affects the behaviors ofevery actors in the international community particularly those which haveinterest and peculiar relations with the Muslim world. The panel will examinetwo outstanding inquiries that will guide the panel in hoping to find, discoveror create patterns of tangency. Questions below magnify the totality of wherethe panel will lead at and to what extent it is presented and analyze.1. How International Relations scholars perceived the field ofIslam?2. How Islamic scholars (Muslims or non-Muslims) perceived the fieldof IR?The organizer humbly hopes that through this panel, we may able to add tothe realm of literature on how human races and civilizations are linked throughintellectual, cultural, economical, and social exchanges particularly on therelations between the East (Islam) and the West (International Relations).

Kindly please send your abstract (200 to 400 words) and a short one-page CV tonassef.adiong@yahoo.com before 13 February 2011.

Sincerely,

Nassef AdiongPhD student in International RelationsMiddle East Technical University,Ankara, Turkey